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beach; here in its season may be found the new Chondria polyrhiza, 

 and at the north end of the Bay is a fine growth of Udotea flahellum; 

 half a mile beyond Shelly Bay is Burchell Cove, well worth a \'isit; 

 here we found splendid specimens of Callithamnion Halliae. Bailey's 

 Bay, something over a mile beyond, is a good place for collecting; 

 here we found some of our best specimens of Eucheuma denticulatum. 

 In going on towards St. George's it would be worth while to take the 

 old and now unused road about a quarter of a mile beyond Bailey's 

 Bay, and follow along the shore to the old ferry, and then past Joyce's 

 Caves to the Causeway. At the north end of the Causeway we come 

 to Long Bird Island,^ on the southeast side of which all the way to 

 the Swing Bridge is good collecting, especially of Helminthocladia 

 Cahadosii and Castagnea. 



Beyond Swing Bridge the road winds with many a picturesque turn 

 along the shores of Mullet Bay into St. George's; these waters ought 

 to be fertile grounds for they are for the most part shallow and easily 

 accessible. Once in St. George's we are in the immediate neighbor- 

 hood of some of the best collecting grounds in Bermuda; going to the 

 shore northwest of the city we first come to Tobacco Baj- which is in 

 fact two quite distinct bays near together; plenty of Bryopsis and 

 Liagora here. A little farther along very near the old fort at St. 

 Catherine's Point, where the shore makes a right angled turn to the 

 east, is a little bay called Achilles Bay, where Helminihodadia may be 

 found in abundance in its season. Following the shore for a mile to 

 the east we pass several little coves, which may be worth a visit; but 

 just before we come to the place where the sewer from the hospital 

 comes down, we come to Judy's Hole, so called in honor of a colored 

 woman whose body was washed ashore here. Here we found splendid 

 specimens of Wrightiella Blodgettii and Naccaria corymbosa floating 

 in on the breakers. Farther along is Sylvester's Bay and beyond 

 that Buildings Bay, so named from the fact that here Sir George 

 Summers built the little ships in which he sailed away for Virginia. 

 It is a little cove extending in behind an old fortification; there is a 

 little beach at the head of the bay; comparatively few plants grow 

 on the rocks along the shore or on the bottom, but among them is the 



5 This is the " Oblongarum Avium Insula" of the map in Jansen's atlas, 

 Vol. Ill, 1646. This map, a copy of the original survey of 1622, is remarkably 

 full and accurate; names of places have hardly changed at all, and the family 

 names of many of the owners there given appear today everywhere in the 

 islands. This accuracy and fullness is the more remarkable in contrast with 

 the maps in the same volume, covering the mainland from Labrador to Florida ; 

 contours are vague and uncertain, and names strangely transposed. 



